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UNIT 4 : SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM
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The 19 period
Grade 12
Theme: SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM
Unit 4
READING
Time: 45 minutes
I. OBJECTIVES:
1. Educational aim: Students should know school education system in England
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students know about school education system
- Language: Sentences and expression for describing school education system
- New words: Words related to school education system
3. Skills: Guessing meaning in context, scanning for specific information and
passage comprehension
II. METHOD: Integrated, mainly communicative
III. TEACHING AIDS: Board, tape, cassetteplayer, chalks, textbook and
notebook
IV. PROCEDURE:
Teacher’s activities
Warm-up: (5 minutes)
- Ask Ss some questions about the
picture:
- Who are they?
- What are they doing?
- Do you think they are English
students?

4. The students do not have any
examinations when they finish secondary
school.
5. A school year consists of two terms.
While you read : (23 minutes)
- Ask students to look through the passage
and read in silence
- Help students read the passage
- Explain pronunciation and meaning of new
words which appear in the passage
Task 1 : (3 minutes)
Find words or phrases in the reading
passage which have the
following
meanings.- Let students work individual
or in groups
- Help students if necessary
Keys:
1- state schools
2- primary education
3- secondary education
4- compulsory
5- General Certificate of Secondary
Education (GCSE)
6- Curriculum
Task 2: (4 minutes)
- Ask students to answer the following
questions
- Ask students look through the passages
then try to answer the questions in right

write them down in the note
books
- Ask the teacher if necessary
- Listen to the teacher and make
a brief note about school
education system in England
- Listen to the teacher


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Keys:
1. from the age of 5
2. 3 terms
3. the state school and the ‘independent’
or ‘public’ school systems
4. yes
5. There are 3 core subjects (English,
Maths and Science)
6. When Ss finish the secondary school,
they can take an examination called the
General
Certificate
of
Secondary
Education
After you read : (8 minutes)
Ask Ss to work in groups. Tell the others
one of the most difficult school subjects
you are studying and what you would like
your friends and your teacher to do to help

Time: 45 minutes
I. OBJECTIVES:
1. Educational aim: Students should know school education system in Vietnam
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students learn about school education system
- Language: Talking about the school education system in Vietnam.
- New words: words related to school education system
3. Skills: talking about school education system
II. METHOD: integrated, mainly communicative
III. TEACHING AIDS: Board, chalks, textbook and notebook....
IV. PROCEDURE:
Teacher’s activities
Warm-up: (5 minutes)
- Ask students to keep book close
- Write on the board names of school
education
system
in
Vietnam:
University, nursery, primary school,
college,
kindergarten,
secondary
school. Then ask Ss to put them in
order
- Ask students to repeat
Tell Ss to understand more about
school education system in Vietnam.
(We learn Unit 1, part- speaking)
Pre-speaking : (12 minutes)

A: When do the children in
A: When do the children in Vietnam Vietnam go to primary school?
go to primary school?
B: When they are 6 years old.
B: When they are 6 years old.
A: How long does the primary
A: How long does the primary education last?
education last?
B: 5 years.
B: 5 years.
While-speaking : (15 minutes)
Task 2
- Teacher introduces the task “Work in
groups. Talk about the school
education system in Vietnam, using
the information from Task 1”.
- Guide students how to practise.
- Ask students to work in pairs.
- Help the students with new
structures.
- Walk around and help them.
- Call some student to stand up and
report before the class.
- Correct their mistakes
Post-speaking : (10 minutes)
Task 3
-Teacher introduces the task “Work in
groups. Talk about the similarities and
differences between the school system
in Vietnam and in England”.



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Vietnamese children until the age
of 1 but, in England, compulsory
education ends when children are
16. There is also a difference about
the subjects studied at schools.
On the other hand, Vietnam and
England school systems have some
similarities. Students in both
countries have to follow the
national curriculum set by the
government.
After
finishing
secondary schools they all have to
take the national examination
known as GCSE

Homework: (3 minutes)
- Ask students to write a passage about
similarities and differences between
the school system in Vietnam and in - Listen to the teacher
England
- Write down the homework
- Ask students to prepare Part CListening and do homework


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- Read and ask students to listen
- Let students listen again and repeat.
- Write some words on board and ask
students to read them aloud.
- Let they work in pairs
- Listen and correct mistakes
While-listening: (20 minutes)
Task 1 (10 minutes):
- Ask students to read the questions
quickly.
- Guide students the requests of the
task.

- Work in pairs
- Listen and understand the
meanings of those words.

- Read the questions quickly.
- Listen to the listening script.
- Answer the questions.


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- Let students listen twice.
- Write on board from 1 to 6 and call
some students to come and write their
answers.
- Let them listen again and correct.
Task 2 (10 minutes):
- Teacher introduces the task “Listen

6.
- Look at the task 2 and listen to
the teacher
- Read the questions and try to
understand them
- Listen to the tape script
- Give correct answers:
1. When he enjoyed the subjects
2. He found it very difficult.
3. Because they were difficult for
him to do in a short time.
4. Because he went away to
boarding school when he was
quite young and he didn’t like
that. So school days weren’t the
best days of his life.
- Work in pairs. Talk about the
results of your current exams at
school and what you will do to
prepare for the next exams
E.g. I didn’t do well in the last
exam period. I was content with
my math, physics and chemistry
results but my English result
wasn’t very good. I made too
many mistakes so I barely passed
it.
I think I have to spend more
time studying English to get
higher grade in the coming

Teacher’s activities
Warm-up :(3 minutes)
- Ask students some questions about school
education systems in Vietnam.
1. How many levels of educations are there
in your school system?
2. How long does it take to complete each
level?
3. How many classes are there in each level?
4. When do children start Grade I?
- Lead Ss to the new lesson: “write a
paragraph on the formal school education
system in Vietnam”

Students’ activities
- Work in pairs, discuss and find
out the answers.
1- 3
2- Primary: 5 years/
Lower secondary- 4 years/ upper
secondary - 3 years
- Understand the aim of the
lesson.

Pre-writing: (15 minutes)
- Teacher introduces the task: In about 150
words, write a paragraph on the formal school - Study the task carefully.
education system in Vietnam, using the information
given in Speaking Tasks on page 47. You may - Work in pairs to give outlines
follow the suggestions below:

front of the class.
- Ask Ss to exchange their writings for peer
correction
- Correct mistakes.
Suggested answer.

2. Supporting Details

3. Closing Sentence

- Use main ideas in the outline
to write a paragraph on the
The formal school system in Vietnam consists of two formal school education system
levels of education, primary and secondary
in Vietnam
education. The children start Grade/ Year 1 at the
age of 6 and they normally complete the primary
education at the age of 10. They move to lower
secondary school to study in Grade 6 when they are
eleven years old. They will finish nine-year
compulsory education when they complete Grade 9
at the age of 14. The children may go to upper
secondary schools if they pass all the subjects tested
at the end of Grade 9. They will stay there until they
complete Grade 12 at the age of 17. If they want to
sit for the entrance exam to universities or colleges
they have to take the national examination for
GCSE which takes place at the end of Mayor
beginning of June. The academic year in Vietnam
runs from September to May and is divided into two

LANGUAGE FOCUS
Time: 45 minutes
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: Students know how to pronounce and mark the stress in
three-syllable words.
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students learn some information to fill in a form
- Language:
- New words: Words related to a form
3. Skills:
- Pronunciation: Stress in three-syllable words
- Grammar: Passive voice
II. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: Text books,
IV. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities
Warm-up: (4 minutes)
- Write some three-syllable words on
the board, and then pronounce those
words aloud.
- Pay attention to its stress.
- Ask Ss to read after
1. algebra
2. carefully
3. politics
4. physical
5. computing
6. compulsory
7. September
-How do we pronounce these words?

- Give some examples
- Ask Ss to make sentences with the
structures.
b. Practice:
* Exercise 1: (10m’)
- Introduce the task: Fill each blank with the
simple present passive form of the verb in
brackets.
- Guide Ss to do
- Ask Ss to fill each blank with the simple
present passive form of the verb in brackets.
- Correct mistakes.

- Listen and repeat from 2-3
times
- Some of them stand and read
words aloud
- Practise in groups
- Some groups compare with their
results and read the words in
sentences aloud

- The answers can be various
- Listen and give more questions
in pairs
- Read the sentences in chorus
aloud

- Understand the task
- Fill each blank with the

brackets.
- Guide Ss to do.
- Ask Ss to fill in the spaces of the
following passage with the correct
tense in passive voice of the verbs in
brackets.
- Correct mistakes.
Homework: (2 minutes)
- Assign homework
- Do exercise ‘part E-language focus in
work book.

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3. A surprise party is going to be
organized by the students in my class
tomorrow morning
4. The kitchen is being painted now.
5. “Romeo and Juliet” was written by
Shakespeare in 1605
6. Shakespeare’s tragedies have been
translated into many languages.
7. A new primary school has just been
built in my village.
8. English will be spoken at the
conference
9. The floor hasn't been cleaned (by
Jane) yet.
10. The house will be repainted…..
Exercise 3
1. Was built


Students’ activities
- Greeting
- Listen and understand
the task
- Get ready for the lesson

I.

Choose the word with underlined part
pronounced differently from the rest (1 point ):

(6 minutes)
- Repeat the question
- Get students to read the passage again
carefully
- Call some students to read out their
answers, and the others give remarks if
it is correct or not.
- Finally read the keys out aloud
II. Fill in each gap with one word from the

- Look at their paper
- Compare the resutls
with the others
- Get the correct answers
from the keys

table, there are more words than needed ( 2
points): (6 minutes)

tenses (2 points):

- Look at the writing
again and compare it with
the others
- Correct the wrong
sentences base on the key

reported speech beginning with given words (1
point): (6 minutes)

- Repeat the question
- Show the listening script on the board
or read the passage again several times
- Get students toread the passage again
carefully
- Call some students to write their
answers on the board, and the others
give remarks if it is correct or not
- Finally read the keys out aloud
V. Read the passage carefully and choose the
correct answer ( 2 points) (6 minutes)
- Repeat the question
- Show the listening script on the board
or read the passage again several times
- Get students toread the passage again
carefully
- Call some students to write their
answers on the board, and the others
give remarks if it is correct or not

give remarks if it is correct or not
- Finally read the keys out aloud
Homework: (4 minutes)
Prepare Unit 5: Higher education

- Try to get the correct
answers
- Compare with the other
classmates
- Compare with the keys

- Prepare Unit 5: Higher
education